Former RIAA Lawyer Becomes Solicitor General

January 25, 2011

President Barack Obama on Monday announced that former RIAA lawyer Donald Verrilli Jr., currently serving as White House deputy counsel, will be taking over the vacancy left by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. As the new solicitor general, Verrilli's job is to defend the government before the Supreme Court, and to file friend-of-the court briefs when the government feels it has a vested interest in a case.

According to the Ars Technica report, Verrilli is best known as the guy who lead the legal charge against music and movie file-sharing site Grokster. That site has gone the way of the dodo thanks in part to his efforts against it. He also had a considerable part in the Viacom legal battle with YouTube, which ended up going wrong for the media giant. Viacom is appealing that decision.

But the most prominent was the Jamie Thomas file sharing case brought by the RIAA. After three trials, Thomas was nailed with a $2 million verdict for sharing two dozen tracks via Kazaa.

Source: Ars Technica

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Re: Former RIAA Lawyer Becomes Solicitor General

Submitted by MechaTama31 on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 23:55.

Thank you, Joe Biden.

Re: Former RIAA Lawyer Becomes Solicitor General

Submitted by Thomas P. on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 15:38.

This is all find and dandy, just keep in mind one thing:

Don't confuse an attourny's legal arguments with their personal beliefs. Just because someone defends a murder doesn't mean people should be allowed to murder others.

Re: Former RIAA Lawyer Becomes Solicitor General

Submitted by ZippyDSMlee on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 12:58.

*plays imperial march*

I have a dream, break the chains of copy right oppression! http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/cigital-disobedience/

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Re: Former RIAA Lawyer Becomes Solicitor General

Submitted by CyberSkull on Tue, 01/25/2011 - 14:38.

You can't play that! ©LucasArts

*cease & desist*

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